LSU's Kim Mulkey does not intend to read the now-published Washington Post profile on her career

The much anticipated article on LSU women's basketball coach Kim Mulkey was published Saturday by The Washington Post. Yet rather than the hit piece Mulkey expected, the feature by Kent Babb was a profile detailing the events and people that influenced an extremely successful coach who's won four national championships.

For example, legendary Tennessee coach Pat Summitt demonstrated to her that it was possible to excel at basketball while also raising a family, incorporating her children into her coaching life.

However, Mulkey insisted on Sunday that she won't read the feature, regardless of whether or not it includes anything she might perceive as objectionable.

The day before, she took issue with when the article was published.

"Are you really surprised by the timing of it?" Mulkey told ESPN's Holly Rowe before the Tigers' Sweet 16 matchup with UCLA on Saturday. "I can tell you I haven't read it, I don't know that I will read it. I'll leave that up to my attorneys."

Mulkey drew attention to the Washington Post article before it was published by saying she would sue the newspaper if it ran a false story about her. The coach anticipated the piece would be unflattering, saying that Babb had spoken with disgruntled former players who might have bad things to say about her.

Emily Niemann, who played for Mulkey at Baylor from 2003-05, recounts wanting to transfer because she wasn't comfortable as a gay woman on campus and felt the coach was too demanding. Niemann left Baylor after her sophomore season, but returned for a celebration of the Bears' 2005 national championship team. She thanked Mulkey for being a positive influence and expressed regret for how her time at Baylor ended.

However, the coach was unresponsive.

With the article now available, the reaction on social media has been largely positive. While some information in the piece might not be considered favorable, the overall piece is viewed as fair and hardly an attack. However, more people will surely read it in light of Mulkey's objections than if she hadn't commented on the article at all.

Following LSU's 78-69 win over UCLA, Mulkey pretended she didn't know the Post piece was published when asked if she'd read it.

"When did it come out?" she said before turning sarcastic when told the article went live shortly before Saturday's game.

"Imagine that," she added. "Must have thought y'all would look at it, get some clicks or be a distraction."

Mulkey redirected her wrath to another newspaper piece during her postgame news conference, singling out a Los Angeles Times column that referred to LSU as "villains."

"I'm not going to let you attack young people, and there were some things in this commentary, guys, that you should be offended by as women," Mulkey said in response to a Friday article by Ben Bolch.

"It was so sexist, and they don't even know it. It was good versus evil in that game today. Evil? Called us dirty debutantes? How dare you?"

UCLA head coach Cori Close appeared to reference the Times story in a postgame apology on social media. Close wrote that reposting an L.A. Times column was "a mistake" and that she "reposted the article only after reading the headline, not the contents of the column."

LSU will play Iowa on Monday in the Elite Eight in a rematch of last year's national championship.